Improved meal and flour sifter



lUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE@ FRANCIS ARNOLD,'OF HADDAM NECK,CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED MEAL AND FLOU`R SIFTER.

Specification forining part of Letters Patent No. 56.692, dated July 31,1866.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS ARNOLD, of Haddam Neck, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Meal and Flour Sitters 5 and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and the letters ot'ret'- erence marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

A represents the body of the sifter, which is made of wood and in theform shown. Wlithin the sifter-boX A, and at about the center of thesame, is placed the semicircular sieve B. This sieve is made of theordinary forni, and is connected tothe sifter-box by means of nails orscrews, which pass through the bands a, a, which arebound around theedges of the same. This sieve can be taken from the hoX whenever it isdesired to use a ner or coarser sieve.

On the inner sides ot the sieve-box A, and at the two ends, are securedthe eccentricshaped metallic plates E and E. These plates are pivoted tothe sitter-box by a screw or pin, x, and readily turn thereon. The underportion of each of these plates are oblong slots, b b b, while the upperpoints are provided with circular openings c c, as shown in Figure 2.

Within the slots b are placed the paddles C,

which extend. lengthwise of the box A and t snugly against sieve B.

D D represent two square paddles, which are set in the openings C C ofthe eccentrics E and E, and also extend lengthwise of the box.

F represents the adjust-able handle which revolves the sitter-paddles.This handle is placed in a band, c, formed in the eccentric E for thatpurpose.

In the use of this meal and our sitter the meal or our is placed in thebox and the handle is worked back and forth, which turns the eccentricsE and E', causing the paddles C and D to sift the meal and flour throughthe sieve.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The metallic plates E E', connecting the paddles C and D, in combinationwith the adjustable sieve B and handle F, when arranged and used as andfor the purposes set forth.

As evidence that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand inthe presence ot" two witnesses.

FRANCIS ARNOLD.

Witnesses CORNELIUS BRAINARD, J oHN H. RUSSELL.

